London Museums

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Discovering The Remains Of London’s Roman Amphitheatre

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London, at its heart, is a Roman city, founded just after the Roman invasion in 43AD. Many Roman remnants survive today including sections of the wall, a temple and bathhouses.  An important Roman town also needs an amphitheatre. It was assumed that Londinium, as the Roman city was known, must have had an amphitheatre but

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Dulwich Picture Gallery: The World’s First Purpose-Built Art Gallery

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I recently paid a visit to the beautiful Dulwich Picture Gallery: the world’s oldest purpose-built art gallery. Not only does it house an incredible art collection with works by Constable, Rembrandt and Gainsborough, but it has some incredible architecture to admire and even contains a mausoleum… Early Origins: The Elizabethan Actor In 1605 Edward Alleyn,

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